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Thamma box office collection day 7: Aditya Sarpotdar’s vampire comedy Thamma, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna, was expected to enter the Rs 100 crore club at least by the end of the opening week. However, the film is still Rs 4.45 crore shy of hitting that milestone, thanks to a major decline in its numbers on the first Monday, its seventh day at the domestic box office.
Thamma’s opening week
On Monday (day 7), Thamma slipped down to its lowest single-day earnings yet. It garnered only Rs 4.25 crore, which was a massive fall from its Sunday (day 6) earnings of Rs 12.60 crore. That was a slight decline from the Saturday (day 5) collection of Rs 13.10 crore, a significant rise from its earnings on Friday (day 4) at Rs 10 crore.
Prior to that, Thamma benefitted from the Diwali festivities, minting Rs 13 crore on Thursday (day 3) on the occasion of Bhai Dooj, Rs 18.60 crore on the occasion of Govardhan Pooja, and its highest single-day earnings at Rs 24 crore on the opening day right after Diwali. As per Sacnilk, the total opening week box office collection of the film in India stands at Rs 95.55 crore.
Thamma in the MHCU
While Thamma released both in the original Hindi version and a dubbed Telugu version, the latter could contribute only Rs 80 lakh to the total haul. In comparison, the previous instalment in Dinesh Vijan and Amar Kaushik’s Maddock Horror Comedy Universe — Stree 2 — entered the Rs 100 crore club in less than four days and went on to become Hindi cinema’s highest grosser in India, bordering on the coveted Rs 600 crore milestone.
While Thamma has surpassed the first two instalments of the MHCU — Kaushik’s Stree (2018) and Bhediya (2022) — it’s yet to surpass the lifetime domestic box office earnings of Sarpotdar’s Munjya last year, which crossed the Rs 100 crore mark despite not boasting of any stars, although after a six-week run. However, after the historic performance of Stree 2, and given the traditionally lucrative window of Diwali, the expectations from Thamma were much higher.
Thamma’s current and upcoming competition
In comparison, the other smaller release of Diwali — Milap Zaveri’s romantic drama Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat — has earned less than half of Thamma. Starring Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa, the film has collected Rs 44.85 crore so far. However, its earnings on Monday (day 7) came quite close to that of Thamma (Rs 4.25 crore) at Rs 3.35 crore.
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Thamma still has a good 10 days before it encounters any major competition. Next week, on November 7, Suparn Verma’s thriller Haq, starring Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam, is all set to hit the cinemas. This week is sans competition, barring Nachiket Samant’s romantic comedy Single Salma, starring Huma Qureshi, which barely has any buzz, unless it turns out to be a dark horse like Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat. Thamma, produced by Vijan’s Maddock Films, stars both Ayushmann and Rashmika as vampires, along with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Paresh Rawal.
